Singapore | Asian History Books

Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore: Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money (Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series)

March 25, 2015

The volume collects the published articles of Dr Marjorie Topley, who was a pioneer in the field of social anthropology in the postwar period and also the first president of the revived Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Sale Price:$60.00 9888028146
Singapore at Random: Facts, figure, quotes and anecdotes on Singapore (At Random Series)

March 25, 2015

Singapore at Random, an illustrated collection of Singapore trivia, contains anecdotes, statistics, quotations, diagrams, facts, recipes, advice, folklore and other unusual and often useful tidbits. Compiled and researched by a dedicated team of researchers and editors at Editions Didier Millet, and having unearthed an abundance of Singaporean trivia, the team has discerningly selected thousands of […]
Lee’s Law: How Singapore Crushes Dissent

March 25, 2015

The perils of dissent in Singapore are at the heart of this poignant story of the country’s most prominent opposition politician, J. B. Jeyaretnam. Following the career of this ambitious lawyer, prosecutor, and judge, the book traces his subsequent disenchantment with the system, his stunning political breakthrough at Anson in l981, and the devastating consequences […]
YOU’LL DIE IN SINGAPORE

March 25, 2015

Weakened by hunger, thirst and ill-treatment, Charles McCormac, a World War Two prisoner-of-war in Japanese-occupied Singapore, knew that if he did not escape he’d die. With sixteen others he broke out of Pasir Panjang camp and began the two-thousand-mile escape from Singapore to Australia. Sale Price:$12.49 1844155404
War, Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore

March 25, 2015

Singapore fell to Japan on 15 February 1942. Within days, the Japanese had massacred thousands of Chinese civilians, and taken prisoner more than 100,000 British, Australian and Indian soldiers. A resistance movement formed in Malaya’s jungle-covered mountains, but the vast majority could do little other than resign themselves to life under Japanese rule. The Occupation […]
Singapore’s Dunkirk: The Aftermath of the Fall

March 22, 2015

When Singapore fell so ignominiously to the Japanese in February 1942, many tens of thousands of men, women and children were left to their own devices. To stay in Singapore meant certain captivity. This book tells of some of the remarkable and shocking experiences that lay in store for those who decided to escape by […]
Early Singapore 1300s – 1819: Evidence in Maps, Text and Artefacts

March 22, 2015

There have been few accessible studies of the pre-1819 period of Singapore, a time usually seen as a vacant era. These nine papers set out what is known. By using written material and recent archaeological discoveries, much light is shed on the 900 or so years before Stamford Raffles “founded” Singapore. This collation of evidence […]
Lee Kuan Yew: The Beliefs Behind the Man (Nias Monographs)

March 22, 2015

Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first Prime Minister, is a figure whose international stature far exceeds that of the tiny island over which he ruled for thirty years. Lee is the principal architect of Singapore’s political stability and its economic success and is often credited with being the leader of economic development throughout Asia. Yet the […]
Goh Keng Swee:A Public Career Remembered

March 22, 2015

Dr Goh Keng Swee was Singapore’s first Minister for Finance from 1959 to 1965 who initiated Singapore’s first industrial estate now known as Jurong Town. He was also the first and longest serving Defence Minister after Singapore became independent in 1965, responsible for building up the Singapore Armed Forces from scratch. Later he became Minister […]
The End of the War: Singapore’s Liberation and the Aftermath of the Second World War

March 22, 2015

Where there are victors, there are also the defeated. As the Second World War comes to a close in Southeast Asia, the Japanese military forces in the region must face up to the fact that the British will soon return to reoccupy their colonies. The British, on the other hand, have to quickly organise the […]

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